Two Ukrainian nationals—53-year-old Svitlana Demydenko and her 22-year-old daughter, Yelyzaveta Demydenko—have been charged by federal prosecutors with illegally voting in the 2024 presidential election in Palm Beach, Florida.

According to the Justice Department, the pair cast ballots on October 31 and made their initial appearance in federal court in West Palm Beach on Tuesday.

In a public statement celebrating the charges, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that the Department of Government Efficiency, commonly known as DOGE, assisted with the investigation in a cost-cutting initiative during the Trump administration.

“In partnership with [DOGE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement] arrested two Ukrainian nationals for illegally VOTING in the 2024 election,” Noem posted Tuesday on social media. “Under President Donald Trump, if you come to our country and break our laws, you will face the consequences.”

Under the Biden administration, Svitlana and Yelyzaveta entered the U.S. lawfully on non-immigrant visas in April 2021, as stated by the DOJ. While living in Florida in August 2024, the mother and daughter registered to vote in federal elections using a system that requires proof of U.S. citizenship, which neither of them possessed.

Reports of the Ukrainian nationals’ illegal votes in the 2024 election emerged just one day after prosecutors disclosed that Iraqi national Akeel Abdul Jamiel, 45, had allegedly voted in the 2020 presidential election in Saratoga County, New York, despite not being a U.S. citizen.

According to federal court documents, Jamiel knowingly cast his ballot around November 3, 2020. He has since left the United States and has not yet been apprehended.

“Election security is and will continue to be one of the FBI’s highest national security priorities,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Craig Tremaroli said regarding Jamiel’s charges. “Americans have a right to expect free and fair elections and the FBI is committed to working with our partners to seek justice for anyone trying to interfere with the democratic process.”